Colli is best known for his co-editorship, with Mazzino Montinari, of the vast and most thorough edition of Nietzsche's complete works, published simultaneously in Italy, France, and Germany. His own publications include: Filosofia e Espressione, La Nascita della Filosofa, and La Sapienza Greca. Not long before his death in 1979, his last and most personal volume appeared--Dopo Nietzsche--a singular document which testifies to a life-long involvement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Sini is well known in Italy for his original work on C. S. Peirce and his efforts to correlate Peirce's pragmatism with recent trends in Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology. In 1972 he published Pragmatismo americano, in which he argued for the continuity between the epistemology of Peirce, which gives priority to "evidence," and that of Husserl, which gives priority to "intuition." Seven years later, however, Sini rejected the possibility of a continuity between the two thinkers. Why? A more involved--or, in (...) Sini words, a more hermeneutical--reading of Peirce's theory of signs convinced him that Peirce stood outside of the long tradition of western metaphysics in which Husserl remained firmly rooted. (shrink)

When Jean-Paul Sartre died on April 15, 1980, a Vatican newspaper wrote that "a very confused and confusing thinker" had passed away. To those who followed Sartre's public statements and interviews during the last five to ten years of his life, the phrase rings true. Sartre's commitment to history in confused times led to a Cartesian confusion, doubtlessly, while his philosophy followed a complex itinerary from his first publication in 1936 to his last in the seventies. Hence one welcomes the (...) present book under review and can only commend it for "totalizing"--to use a Sartrean word--the philosophy of Sartre from a critical perspective. The most recent in the Library of Living Philosophers series, this volume earns the right to its ambitious title: twenty-eight original essays cover every significant aspect of Sartre's thought. (shrink)